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In Lindale, Georgia, people saw something truly terrible. Kayden Ely, an 11-year-old boy, was holding up a sign that read, “Please help bury my mama.” Per WSBTV, Ely’s mother, Shannon Mount, went into cardiac arrest on July 8. Paramedics were able to temporarily revive her, but she later passed away while she was on life support on July 16.
Having few others to turn to, Ely took his sign and stood next to nearby railroad tracks, hoping to spread his message. Answering the call to arms, multiple people took Ely’s pleas to Channel 2 Action News. A family friend, Jennifer Grissom, started a GoFundMe page to further assist Ely. (Which you can find here.) More
These are the situations that Make America Great Again and work towards rebuilding what the Democrats want to destroy (Don’t want to turn this into a political thing but it makes a point): Community.
God bless this boy and the rest of his family and those that are moved to respond.
This is where I grew up.
First, a great big shout out to those who’ve helped these boys. You’re gathering diamonds for your crowns. Our “elites” are insulated from the realities of common American’s lives. They live in a fantasy world of money and power eating thei caviar and drinking champagne at their endless social events. They have no idea how real Americans struggle because of their insane policies.
Speaking of hillbilly elegies, JD Vance might want to acknowledge this family. Not to make a big political spectacle or anything, but quietly step in. It’s the sort of thing his boss does regularly and without fanfare.
Wasn’t that long ago the “community” and church would be there to take care of their own. That link’s been severed by the federal government and we’ve gotten in the habit of expecting others to handle these things.
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“Ely’s mother, Shannon Mount, went into cardiac arrest on July 8. Paramedics were able to temporarily revive her, but she later passed away while she was on life support on July 16.”
…Ely may not feel like it, but hes probably a lucky boy that she did.
My father-in-law was also “temporarily” revived, but he’d been down too long and his brain was nothing but necrotic tissue and seizure activity. This went on for a couple three days, mostly because the body was intact and still looked like the father she loved, but ultimately my wife hit the inescapable fact that the man she loved was gone and only the husk remained twitchingly behind, and made the decision that had to be made.
It may have been a contributing factor that my FIL lived in a part of East Tennessee where advanced cardiac care was unavailable, so they had to fly him by helicopter to Knoxville where the heart doctors were.
I’m guessing the late Ms. Mount, living rurally as she did, followed a similar arc, with the exception being her son wasnt called upon to make that terrible decision. Doesnt make it any nicer to hear “your mother is gone”, true, but at least he doesnt have giving the order to cause his mothers biological death himself on his heart, let alone deciding whether to part her out afterwards.
My FIL was not obliging, he gasped for air a good long while after they extubated him until the hospice nurse Morphed him into the Great Beyond “just in case hes having pain”. Morphine being a respiratort depressant, he obligingly calmed right down and checked right out, mercifully sparing her a death rattle but otherwise making it known that body had finally joined mind.
That boy may have had similar, but apparently with less family support and no one to comfort him as family in the room. Probably quite traumatic in and of itself, but it seems the hospital was lacking in social services too as no one helped him with explaining pauper’s funerals or other options for dealing with his mothers remains.
I agree with Dr. Tar, someone from her church, a neighbor, a friens, SOMETHING from the wider world SHOULD have been there in the boys need. But modern rules like HIPAA and a hopitals natural disdain of human emotional needs probably excluded non-family from the room anyway, leaving an 11 yo boy to deal alone with his mothers death while detached nurds in crisp white coats spoke things about his mother in terms that he couldnt understand; then having concluded their lofty medical part in the drama abandoning him to deal as best he could, even though the only thing he knew to do was beg for a coffin along some railroad tracks.
God Bless this little boy, and may He lift the awful parts of those terrible days from his memory, leaving only the love he had with his mother behind, and may the Lord support him in blessedness all the rest of his days.
And shame on those adults in the hospital where she passed. I know compartmentalization, believe me, but you should never leave a grieving little boy alone to his own devices as he weeps over the corpse of his dead mother.
Do better.
hmm,
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/glenmark-pharmaceuticals-inc-usa-issues-voluntary-nationwide-recall-potassium-chloride-extended
check your meds and your loved ones meds.